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According to The New York Times coronavirus report, as of Sunday, April 19, 2:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, there were 35,676 COVID-19 deaths in the United States. Of those deaths, 18,690 were in the New York metropolitan area. (The New York metropolitan area is generally regarded as consisting of the five boroughs of New York City, the five New York State counties surrounding New York City -- Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Orange -- and the populous parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.) That means that more than half (52%) of all deaths in America have occurred in the New...

Meredith Corp released an updated response and plan to deal with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic today. Meredith president-CEO Tom Harty reports the company has robust traffic to its digital properties — a 40% increase in April so far — high viewership across its local news broadcasts and steady paid print subscriptions. Meredith Corp’s National Media Group, home to its print and digital titles, relies on subscriptions to drive 95% of its sales. “Given recent lifestyle changes, our content is particularly relevant now as more Americans are spending time at home and are demonstrating expanded interest in DIY,...

TAMPA — Even winning six Super Bowls and joining the Bucs didn’t help Tom Brady get special treatment. Like the rest of us, the 42-year-old former Patriots quarterback has had trouble finding a place to work out. Brady was spotted at a city park and told to leave by a Tampa Parks and Recreation staffer, according to Tampa Mayor Jane Castor. The city’s parks are closed in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. “I got to tell you this story, too. I always tell people, ‘Now I’m not one to gossip so you didn’t hear this from me,'”...

As Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announces the reopening of various sectors of the state economy, perhaps a rather obvious point needs to be highlighted… There are few high-traffic businesses more densely populated than grocery stores. In fact, within the U.S. economy retail supermarkets have the highest foot traffic of any business sector in the entire economy; that’s just an empirical fact…. and the coronavirus impact increased that foot traffic by an average of 40 percent. Now, stop and think about this logically & apply a large dose of common sense. Think about human-to-human interface. First, with approximately 90 percent of...

Stock futures pointed to big losses for a second day on Tuesday as oil prices continued their unprecedented wipeout. Traders were focused on the strange happenings with oil futures once again, which raised concern about deep losses for the energy industry hitting the U.S. economy even further. On Monday, the May contract for oil futures expiring Tuesday fell to zero and then went to an actual negative price, meaning producers would pay for someone to take the oil off their hands. The bizarre move has to do with the fact that because of the coroanvirus shutdowns, big buyers of oil like refineries...

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, who has openly questioned the models informing the government's reaction to the coronavirus crisis, told Fox News' Brit Hume that states should "reopen schools as quickly as possible" while also questioning other elements of the government response to the pandemic. He also said that there is a chance it may be harder for children to give the coronavirus to adults than it is for adults to give it to children. "So you don't really have to worry that much about protecting adults from children," Berenson told Hume regarding the risks to teachers if...

Gates on the Covid-19 vaccine:"You Don't Have A Choice""But you don't have a choice. People act like you have a choice... But for the world at large, normalcy only returns when we've largely vaccinated the entire global population." https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xUChdrL6Cd8&feature=emb_title

Ticketmaster has so far cancelled or postponed 30,000 events worth $2 billion in ticket sales. With more than 25,000 events still scheduled for the year, Ticketmaster expects additional events to be cancelled or postponed and will offer refunds on a rolling basis. With no one knowing when large scale events such as concerts and sporting events will return, this nightmare scenario for the industry is likely to linger for quite some time.

Conservative street artist Sabo decided he's had enough of the coronavirus lockdown and, in his trademark style, is urging political leaders in California and Los Angeles to open things up again. "I was a good guy sitting in my apartment for long enough," Sabo told PJ Media. "Strange how most if not all of the mayors and governors who are pushing for longer quarantine time are Democrats." "Is this Chinese flu real or blown out of proportion I don't know," he continued. "But, I know one thing for sure, the powers that be now know what little it would take...

When historians look back at America's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, they likely will cite Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as the best example of how not to contain a pandemic in your state. The Democratic governor has turned her state into the heart of COVID-19 resistance. On Wednesday, protesters shut down the roads in Lansing, the state's capital, in a protest dubbed "Operation Gridlock." Whitmer responded to the outrage of her constituents thusly: "I know that people are angry and that's OK, and if you want to take it out and send it my way, if it makes you feel...

It’s just the flu, bro. I was sent this comment from a fellow Flubro yesterday. Essentially the left is going crazy about current lockdown protests being CV spreading events. Well they also went crazy about the Wisconsin in person voting 2 weeks ago as a spreading event. Well 2 weeks is time for CV to theoretically spread and kill people. Yet there is no spike in CV deaths in Wisconsin. It is very dangerous for any country (especially the USA) to not permit protests for any reason. https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/index.htm In the last minute of Trump’s CV press conference yesterday he said...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Hebrew Worship Words Alats Psalm 5:11But let all who take refuge in you be glad;     let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them,     that those who love your name may rejoice in you. Psalm 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you;     I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High. Psalm 68:3 I will be glad and rejoice in you;     I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High. New International Version (NIV)(End of Scripture Passage) . "Alats", and also...

Professor Isaac Ben-Israel (also known as Yitzhak Ben Israel) published an English translation of his analysis on worldwide coronavirus infection decline, The End of Exponential Growth: The Decline in the Spread of Coronavirus. As I wrote last week, professor Ben-Israel published a Hebrew paper comparing the rates of coronavirus infections in the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain over an eight-week period. His team's graphs showed a contradiction to what Americans would have expected to see after listening to our governors' lockdown orders: irrespective of whether a country quarantined like Israel, or went about business...

new thread, starting 4/21/2020

After the Second World War, Sweden initiated a clandestine nuclear program — and had plans for a supersonic nuclear bomber. After World War II, the Soviet specter lay heavily across Europe. Like other post-war countries, Sweden wanted to protect itself from a Soviet invasion — and decided to manufacture nuclear weapons to ensure its security. Initially, Sweden tried to get nuclear weapons expertise from outside the country. The United States, as the world’s first nuclear power and a guarantor of European security, was a logical partner.

Every liberal attempted hit-job on President Donald Trump has fallen flat. “He acted too slowly!” was destroyed by a simple reciting of the facts (as evidenced here by Congressman Dan Crenshaw to a dumbfounded Bill Maher), “We were warning people while the White House did nothing!” was destroyed by simply playing clips of those same people downplaying coronavirus while President Trump was forming the task force and banning travel from China. You name the narrative and you can see it destroyed in real-time by playing video fo the very people making the charge being guilty of what they’re accusing...

Almost half of Americans live in communities with unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American Lung Association, as the country continues to grapple with a respiratory virus that has brought more attention to the impact of air pollution on people'shealth. The American Lung Association's "State of the Air" report found that 150 million Americans -- 45.8% of the population -- live in counties with unhealthy levels of ozone or tiny particle pollution -- essentially soot or smog. The numbers have increased in the past three reports. "What we're seeing is an actual increase in the number of people...

When America reaches the end of this ongoing CoronaPanic, and we all finally catch our breath long enough to look around at the social and economic devastation we have voluntarily created for ourselves, it is crucial that those of us who value the fragile freedoms passed down to us from previous generations never forget which segments of our society worked so hard to take them away from us. Those segments are obvious, quite transparent in their motivations, and their faces appear on our TV and computer screens each and every day in the form of Democrat politicians and their corrupt...

WASHINGTON - A chorus of governors from both parties pushed back hard after President Donald Trump accused Democrats of playing “a very dangerous political game” by insisting there is a shortage of tests for the coronavirus. The governors countered that the White House must do more to help states do the testing that’s needed before they can ease up on stay-at-home orders. Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the current federal effort “really is not good enough if we’re going to be able to start to open our economy. We cannot do that safely without the tests in place.” Supply...

Something for seniors to do to keep those "aging" grey cells active! 1. Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's name? 2. There is a clerk at the butcher shop, he is five feet ten inches tall and he wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh? 3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world? 4. How much dirt is there in a hole... that measures two feet by three feet by four feet? 5. What word in the...